Birth Date: 1917
Born:
William George & Jean Cole
Home: Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
1 (RAF)
Base
RAF Shrewton
Rank
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Position
Flight Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/103695
1 Glider Pilot Experience Unit (GPEU) Hector I glider tug (tow plane) K 9781, from RAF Netheravon, England, stalled while towing a glider, hit a house and crashed at Shrewton, England.
Flight Sergeant William Herbert Cyril Cole RCAF R/103695 KIFA Brookwood Military Cemetery, grave 33. G. 6..
(A Crawford, H Welting at www.rafcommands.com)
The Hawker Hector was a British biplane army co-operation and liaison aircraft of the late 1930s; it served with the Royal Air Force and saw brief combat in the Battle of France in May 1940. Some Hectors were later sold to Ireland. It was named after the Trojan prince Hector.
The Hector was intended as a replacement for the Hawker Audax army co-operation aircraft. The design and the building of the prototype was done by Hawker but production aircraft were built by Westland Aircraft in Yeovil, Somerset. Because of the demand for Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines required for the Hawker Hind programme, an alternative power plant was specified. Consequently, the 24 cylinder 805 hp (600 kW) Napier Dagger III was used. The prototype first flew on 14 February 1936 with George Bulman as pilot. One prototype and 178 production aircraft were built. Wikipediae
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